Legal Opinion
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 3, 1978No. 76-419PublishedCited by 2,298 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
In 1946, Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act, which as we have noted elsewhere was not only “a new, basic and comprehensive regulation of procedures in many agencies,” Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath, 339 U. S. 33 (1950), but was also a legislative enactment which settled “long-continued and hard-fought contentions, and enacts a formula upon which opposing social and political forces have come to rest.” Id., at 40. Section 4 of the Act, 5 U. S. C. § 553 (1976 ed.), dealing with rulemaking, requires in subsection (b) that “notice of proposed rule making shall be published in the…
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